Comments

Comment by horderthanu

it will be nice to have a castable 'remove curse' in WotLK.

Comment by defektunge

Handy for PvP and PvE alike. Overall a very nice talent, worthy of its position at 31 points into the tree. The mana cost (7% of base mana) is the same as the mana cost for Cure Poison and Cure Disease.

As a nice bonus, it saves you a keybinding by combining both Cure spells ;)

...or did, way back when. Shamans used to have one spell called Cure Poison and one called Cure Disease, which did just that. Restoration had Cleanse Spirit as a talent, which was a new spell that removed poison, disease and curses. It didn't actually replace any of the other two, but there was no longer any point in having them on your action bars. Later on, the "Cure" spells got removed, Cleanse Spirit became the baseline spell for all specs, and resto instead got an Improved Cleanse Spirit talent to add to the types of effects the spell could remove.

Comment by shadowaninja

The Shaman version of the Paladins Cleanse spell. However, instead of removing curses, this remove curses. Also costs 1% more base mana than Cleanse for some reason.

Warlocks beware. Another class to spoil your fun.

Comment by Ibram

Is it just me or does this have the same icon as ancestral spirit?

Comment by brendon2k

I think he is referring to the ability to remove CoT which is a major thorn in the side for elemental and resto shamans.

Comment by Nogun

You shouldn't compare "xx% of base mana" spell costs to similar spells of other classes. At level 60 and 70 all classes had different amounts of base mana it's very likely that this will also be the case at level 80.

So making comparisons of percentages of different values is a bit pointless without mentioning those base mana amounts of the 2 classes (and for level 80 it's still unknown).

A reason why it maybe should cost more than paladin's "Cleanse" is that they have no access to totems or an equivalent that plays cleanse bot for you.

Comment by snyper256

On the other hand, it's great that it has the same mana cost as Cure Poison and Cure Disease, while getting the benefit of both and curse-removal!

Comment by yarai

Basically: if you're deep resto, there is no reason to use cure poison or cure disease, since this will cure both AND a curse simultaneously for the same mana cost!

Comment by blackbow

I hope this means they're coming out with a cleanse totem, otherwise going against a lock,dk, and rogue/hunter simultaneously in arena will be cleanse spirit spam fight.

Comment by burriko

One of the most interesting features of this spell is that, unlike most shaman spells, it is in the holy tree rather than the nature tree. This should mean that once your nature tree is interrupted in pvp (a common shaman complaint) that you can at least still continue to cleanse, which certainly makes this spell worth a talent point for arena. (Note that i haven't tested this)

It does seem quite odd to give shaman a holy spell, and i can't help but think that maybe it wasn't intentional.

Comment by marcusdds

While a good talent for PVP, generally PVE has less "dangerous" curses, less often, can easily be healed through, and in raids there should be another class easily available to handle decursing.

Therefore one might say that it's optional depending on one's playing style, and isn't crucial to have, if you feel like spending the talent point elsewhere.

Comment by ShirouChan

Edit: I deleted my comments because i was rated down so why keep them if you didn't feel they were useful.

Comment by k123j1

Comment by ShirouChan

shamans already got kick @ss offensive dispel

Sry but IMO that is one more reason why I shouldn't waste 1 talent point to get this ability.

Comment by ShirouChan

I'm not arguing about its usefulness, because it IS a very useful spell; I just can't understand why blizzard makes us waste a talent point on it when the same time another class, namely pallys have a very similar ability as a base spell. I personally find it totally unreasonable.

Comment by ShirouChan

I'm not saying that you shouldn't talent this skill (though i'm sure i won't), but i just wanted to express how unfair i feel that Blizzard put this skill in the talent tree, when it's clearly not stronger than Paladin's cleanse which is a base spell.

Comment by ShirouChan

If people used that logic, nobody would take Feral Spirit, Water Elemental, or Force of Nature because none of them are as useful as Warlock or Hunter pets.

This and that are a completely different matters, because the talents u mentioned summon pets as strong (or almost as strong) as a BM hunter, or a Demonology WL has. Just think abount how many talents these 2 classes' talent tree uses to strenghten their pets, so it really wouldnt be fair if shamans/druids/mages had a permanent pet as strong as hunters and warlocks for only one talent point. Don't you agree?As for the matter of Cleanse spirit I'm not saying that this skill should never be talented (though i'm sure i won't spend on it - personal preferences), but i just wanted to express how unfair i feel that Blizzard put this skill in the talent tree, when it's clearly not stronger than Paladin's cleanse which is a base spell.

Comment by Yaushee

No one seems to have mentionned it, but this spell seems to be rather buggy, and thus not working for some curse like the one cast by Noth (which can be problematic).

Comment by warhowl

perfect for yogg-saron encounter P2removes all debuffs except magic

Comment by Nerobyrne

In Cataclysm, this will be "removes one curse", nothing else ... :(Apparently, Shamans won't be able to remove poisons OR diseases, ever... Suddenly they can heal curses, which they could not before. I don't really get it, but there it is.

Comment by Tankana

In Cataclysm, this will be "removes one curse", nothing else ... :(Apparently, Shamans won't be able to remove poisons OR diseases, ever... Suddenly they can heal curses, which they could not before. I don't really get it, but there it is.

actually, the clease spirit today will remove Curse, Poison and Disease, and you have to specc in resto tree to get it.and in cataclysm you get the clease spirit spell by default as a shaman but will ONLY remove a curse, and you can specc to improve it to allso remove a magical effect, and seeing you have a cleansing totem to remove poisons and diseases i whould actually say the spell got buffed, or atleast the shaman as whole, because as far as i know, when this kicks in, we are the ONLY class abel to remove ALL poison, disease, magical and curse effects.earlier we could do nothing about magical effects but now we can, and totems take care of the poisons and diseases

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Comment by Boobah

Comment by froiz12

I love it when you dispell sleep and the water animation gets thrown on the target ;)

Comment by murdershot21

Completely bull$%^&, any resto shammy can spam this and make any affliction lock about as deadly as a kitten.

Comment by LafinJack

Is it possible for this to miss, or not dispell, or whatever? Tried to do heroic Asaad last night and as much as everyone was jumping and as much as I was cleansing, we still kept wiping and had to abandon him.

Comment by Arvest

Earthmender Duarn <The Earthen Ring> says:

I fail to understand why they banned totemic cleansing. No one was ever in range, anyway.